Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Co-ordination between subjects was lacking and the whole overloaded and exceptionally ambitious in scope requiring , moreover , a scale of expenditure well in excess of schools ' ability to pay for it . |
| 2 | The telephone answering machine , and my clients ' willingness to talk to me at unusual hours of the day and night , kept me firmly in touch . |
| 3 | Only 23.49 per cent followed the opposition parties ' advice to vote against it . |
| 4 | There was considerable confusion as to whether the relief of widows was to be considered independently of either their late husbands ' failure to provide for them , or of the needs of their children . |
| 5 | The ability to develop new drugs is now greater than most countries ' ability to pay for them without rationing or screening systems — for example , France controls individual prices and Germany has initiated a reference system which pays a basic price for all drugs in the same category . |
| 6 | The Conservatives ' attempts to deal with it were hardly fair to the Boards , however . |
| 7 | The children were taken into care in mid-1987 because of their parents ' inability to look after them properly and following suspicions of sexual abuse against the girl . |